At the Time 100 Gala, King told The Hollywood Reporter she "felt safe" in space and isn't ruling out the opportunity to return, although she thinks it won't be "anytime soon."

Winfrey shed a few tears as she watched King blast off into space with an all-female crew on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on April 14

On April 14, CBS Mornings co-anchor Gayle King, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and Katy Perry embarked on a suborbital flight, reaching the fourth-highest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.